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Transformations in Europe
What ideas transformed Europe in the early modern era?
P R E V I E W

Read Section 1 in the Student Text. Then answer these questions in your notebook:
How did Gutenbergs press revolutionize the way books were made?
What are some of the ways the print revolution transformed Europe?
Today, what does it mean to Google something? Why would you Google something?
How is the Internet revolution similar to the print revolution in the 15th century?
R E A D I N G

Key Content Terms

As you complete the Reading Notes, use these

terms in your answers.
Renaissance
Scientific Revolution
Reformation

Enlightenment

Section 2

1. What does renaissance mean? Why is it

used to describe this period?
2. List five reasons why the Renaissance
originated in Italy.
3. Complete this statement from the perspective of each of the people listed below:
My name is ________. I am most famous
for ________. I exemplify the ideas of the
Renaissance because _________.
a. Dante

c. Petrarch

e. da Vinci

b. Raphael

d. Erasmus

f. Shakespeare

N O T E S
Section 3

1. Copy the flowchart below in your notebook.

List the problems in the Catholic Church
and the solutions Luther proposed.
Problems in the Church

Luthers Solutions

2. For each person below, answer these

questions: Who was he? How did he impact
the Reformation?
Martin Luther

John Calvin

Pope Leo X

Henry VIII

3. Copy the spoke diagram below. Next to

each line, write a step the Catholic Church
took to reform and renew itself.
The Counter Reformation

4. How did the ideas of the Renaissance

transform Europe?
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Section 4

P R O C E S S I N G

1. What factors promoted the growth of

science in the 1500s?
2. Copy the flowchart below in your notebook.
In each box, explain how the thinker
advanced scientific understanding.
Copernicus

Galileo

Newton

3. Describe the scientific method. How did Descartes and Bacon contribute to its
development?
4. How did the ideas of the Scientific
Revolution transform Europe?
Section 5

1. Explain how each of the following inspired

Enlightenment thinkers:
classical Greece and Rome
the Renaissance
the Reformation
the Scientific Revolution
2. Complete this statement from the perspective
of each of the people listed below:
My name is ________. I am most famous
for ________. I exemplify the ideas of the
Enlightenment because _________.
a. Hobbes

d. Montesquieu

b. Locke

e. Voltaire

c. Smith

f. Rousseau

3. Identify four ways the Enlightenment

transformed Europe. Circle the two effects
you think are the most important and
explain why for each.

Teachers Curriculum Institute

Create a mock Facebook page for one European

thinker from the Renaissance, Reformation,
Scientific Revolution, or Enlightenment.
Your page must have at least
three pieces of biographical information
(such as birth date, country of residence,
and education).
three friends or family of the thinker.
three pictures the thinker is tagged in.
one status update that reveals the thinkers
personality.
one status update that refers to the thinkers
achievements.
one status update that shows how the
thinkers ideas transformed Europe.
one event the thinker is hosting.
three appropriate comments, posts, and likes
from other European thinkers.
Design your mock Facebook page to simulate
the layout and feel of a real Facebook page.
You may use presentation, publishing, or word
processing software, or a free online Facebook
simulator, to create your page. Or you can
create your page on paper.
Remember: The content of your page is more
important than the layout! Be prepared to share
your finished mock Facebook page with the
class.

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